A huge welcome goes out to the thousands of runners headed to Missoula this week to take part in the Missoula Marathon weekend. The races follow an exceptional course and Missoula truly turns it in to a community event, thanks to the hard work of Run Wild Missoula and hundreds of volunteers. As always, there’s…
Part I is here. In more than 400 training miles and 550+ miles on the year, not once had I experienced any need to hit the can, so to speak. That all changed around Mile 4. Seriously? Today? Now? More than 550 miles since January and nothing. Then again, not once during all those miles…
I’m still not sure how it happened, but back in early February I started toying with the idea of trying to run the Missoula Half Marathon. I tossed the idea around in my head for more than a week before telling anyone about it. Even then it was with a very cautious, tepid, “what if”…